Genetic evaluation of conformation traits using random contemporary groups and reducing the influence of parent averages

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 129-137

  Schaeffer, Larry ^a   Calus, Mario ^a   Liu, Xuelu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformation; Dairy cattle; Genetic evaluation; Inbreeding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035041609     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(00)00262-1     Document Type: Article

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